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USS United States: Commodore Stephen Decatur, 1812
by W. Nowland Van Powell
A retired Memphis architect, artist Nowland Van Powell researched and painted many works of the naval forces and battles of the American Revolution. The US Naval Academy Museum had a major showing of his paintings in 1970, for which he attended the opening reception. As a thank you, he donated this portrait of Decatur's famous command during the War of 1812, and the frigate aboard which he visited Annapolis in 1809. |